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Revolutionizing Document Intelligence: Scaling Construction Industries with AI-Driven Extraction

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:52:00 Z

Introduction Generative AI (GenAI) is poised to transform the construction industry by addressing chronic challenges such as low productivity, cost overruns, schedule delays, and labor shortages. B...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

APIM Support for Foundry Models in Azure AI Search

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:30:58 Z

Microsoft Foundry brings Azure API Management support to all Foundry model integrations in Azure AI Search, now in public preview. Enterprise platform engineers and AI solution teams running large-scale RAG pipelines can place Foundry and Azure OpenAI mod
Update Type: Preview, Services: API Management, Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Categories:

Private Connectivity for Azure AI Search and Foundry Knowledge Bases

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:15:11 Z

Azure AI Search and Foundry Knowledge Bases now support private, end-to-end network connectivity between search resources and Foundry services. Customers can route ingestion, enrichment, retrieval, and agent traffic over Shared Private Link or Network Sec
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Private Link, Categories:

Content Understanding chunking and image verbalization in Azure AI Search

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:00:34 Z

Azure AI Search now supports Content Understanding chunking and image verbalization in public preview, expanding the built-in skill that parses rich documents during indexing. Indexers can split documents into semantically meaningful chunks and generate t
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Categories:

Text Analytics for Health NextGen Playground in Azure AI Language

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:15:57 Z

Azure AI Language brings the next-generation Text Analytics for Health (TA4H) playground to general availability in the Microsoft Foundry portal. Clinical informatics teams and ISVs can paste discharge summaries, doctor's notes, or research abstracts and
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Health Data Services, Categories:

Unified Text Translation API in Azure AI Translator

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:00:30 Z

Azure AI Translator's unified Text Translation API reaches general availability, giving developers a single endpoint that fronts neural machine translation, large language model translation, small language model translation, Adaptive custom translation, a
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Improved PDF batch document translation in Azure AI Translator

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Translator batch document translation ships generally available improvements for PDF translation. The service uses Azure AI Document Intelligence to recover structure from both digital-native and scanned PDFs, then translates the recognized text
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure Storage, Categories:

Image file translation for batch document translation in Azure AI Translator

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Translator batch document translation accepts image files as a generally available input type. Supported formats include `.jpeg`, `.png`, `.bmp`, and `.webp`. The service runs OCR on each image, translates the recognized text into the target lang
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure Storage, Categories:

OneLake catalog integration for Azure AI Search knowledge sources

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Search makes OneLake catalog integration generally available for knowledge sources, so customers can register a OneLake item once and reuse it across multiple knowledge sources and agents. The integration honors existing OneLake item-level permis
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Categories:

LLM Speech API in Azure AI Speech

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Speech makes the LLM Speech API generally available, delivering state-of-the-art LLM-powered transcription and translation for audio files, with multi-lingual support across 25 languages (90+ locales), improved accuracy, expanded regions, and enh
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Purview admin access auditing for sensitivity-labeled content in Azure AI Search

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Search adds Microsoft Purview admin access auditing for sensitivity-labeled content in public preview. Admin operations that touch Purview-labeled documents inside Azure AI Search, knowledge retrieval, and Foundry IQ knowledge bases now flow into
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Azure Purview, Categories:

Purview sensitivity labels in Azure AI Search knowledge sources

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Search adds Microsoft Purview sensitivity label support to knowledge sources in public preview. Labels applied at the source system flow through ingestion into Azure AI Search and into the knowledge bases that ground Foundry agents and copilots,
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Azure Purview, Categories:

Serverless indexers in Azure AI Search

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Search now offers a serverless option for native indexers in public preview, removing the requirement to provision and manage indexer compute for ingestion workflows. Indexer execution scales with workload demand, so customers stop paying for idl
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Categories:

Neural HD voice update (HDv2.5) in Azure AI Speech

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Speech is rolling out an updated Neural HD text-to-speech model, moving customers from DragonHDLatest to HDv2.5. The update raises audio quality scores, adds style and paralinguistic tag support for English voices, and reduces word error rate in
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Incremental SharePoint permissions sync for Azure AI Search and Foundry IQ

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Search and Foundry IQ Knowledge Sources add incremental SharePoint permissions sync in public preview, keeping document-level, site, and library access control lists current as SharePoint permissions change. Enterprises store business-critical co
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Categories:

Azure AI Translator SDKs for the latest text translation API

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Translator publishes generally available SDKs that target the latest text translation REST API across four languages: C#/.NET, Java, JavaScript, and Python. The SDKs expose Translator API v4 SDK to GA across all four supported programming languag
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: SDK and Tools

Adaptive custom translation in the Azure AI Foundry NextGen playground

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Adaptive Custom Translation (AdaptCT) is generally available in the Azure AI Foundry NextGen playground for Azure Translator. AdaptCT enables enterprises to adapt translations to domain‑specific terminology using small datasets—eliminating the need for tr
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Photo Avatar standard and custom in Azure AI Speech

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Photo Avatar in Azure AI Speech is now generally available in standard and custom flavors. Standard Photo Avatar produces a talking head video from a single photo at 512x512 resolution, and custom Photo Avatar lets you fine-tune the look from your own ima
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Microsoft Purview sensitivity label auditing in Azure AI Search

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Search now emits audit events for Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels carried alongside indexed documents. When the SharePoint in Microsoft 365 indexer is configured to preserve and honor sensitivity labels, query-time filtering decisions and la
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Azure Purview, Categories:

GenAI prompt skill and chat completion in Azure AI Search knowledge sources

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Search makes the GenAI prompt skill generally available, letting indexers call chat completion models during enrichment without custom code. Authors point the skill at a Foundry-hosted model, write a prompt template that references field values,
Update Type: GA, Services: Logic Apps, Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Categories:

Managed identity for Foundry billing calls from Azure AI Search

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Search now supports managed identity authentication for the billing operations it issues against Microsoft Foundry resources, replacing the prior key-based flow. Customers assign a system-assigned or user-assigned identity to the search service,
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Categories:

Speech SDK 1.50 for Azure AI Speech

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Speech SDK 1.50 ships as a generally available release across all supported languages: C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, Objective-C, Swift, and Go. The release rolls up the latest speech-to-text and text-to-speech features behind a stable API surface an
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure Storage, Categories: SDK and Tools

GPT Realtime in Production: Which Context Strategy Should You Actually Use?

Fri, 29 May 2026 22:30:00 Z

Are You Running Azure GPT Realtime in Production? The question that started this: Are you running Azure gpt-realtime in production? If so, you've already run into the question I want to talk abou...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Choosing the Right Language Analyzer for Azure AI Search

Fri, 29 May 2026 21:15:00 Z

By Abhishree Shetty, Alec Berntson, Lihang Li A language analyzer is a specific type of text analyzer that performs lexical analysis using the linguistic rules of the target language. It applies l...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Categories:

Migrating to GPT-5.x Without Breaking GPT-4: A Practical, Backward-Compatible Playbook

Fri, 29 May 2026 19:30:00 Z

The first request your service sends after swapping gpt-4o for gpt-5.1 in production will return HTTP 400. Not in two weeks. On the first call. And the parameter the error points to isn't one you s...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

AI Services Metrics Advisor is retired as of May 18, 2026

Fri, 29 May 2026 19:00:24 Z

Azure AI Metrics Advisor has been retired as of May 18, 2026.We recommend the following alternatives:Azure Monitor, as an official Azure 3P product, anomaly detection and analysis capabilities are provided through multiple interfaces, e.g., Detect and ana
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Monitor, Categories: Services, Retirements

Securing Azure AI Applications: Against Prompt Injection | Part - 2

Thu, 21 May 2026 15:38:00 Z

What’s Next? In our previous blog, we introduced the evolving GenAI threat landscape and explained why traditional security models fall short for AI-powered applications 👉 Securing Azure AI Applic...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Scalable AI with Azure Cosmos DB: Bringing Generative AI to Enterprise Scale with Super Insight by AVASOFT

Thu, 07 May 2026 15:14:50 Z

Azure Cosmos DB enables scalable AI-driven document processing, addressing one of the biggest barriers to operational scale in today’s enterprise AI landscape. Organizations continue to manage massive volumes of structured and unstructured content—contracts, regulatory filings, operational records, images, and field documentation—yet many workflows remain fragmented, manual, and slow. Every month, the Scalable AI in Action […] The post Scalable AI with Azure Cosmos DB: Bringing Generative AI to Enterprise Scale with Super Insight by AVASOFT appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Cosmos DB, Categories:

Azure Document Intelligence v3.0 API will be retired on March 30, 2029

Wed, 06 May 2026 22:15:33 Z

On March 30, 2029, Azure Document Intelligence v3.0 API will be retired. Please migrate to latest generally available Azure Document Intelligence API version, v4.0, by that date. After March 30, 2029, Azure Document Intelligence v3.0 API will no longer be
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories: Services, Retirements

Introducing OpenAI's newest chat model in Microsoft Foundry

Tue, 05 May 2026 18:10:00 Z

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Instant (or Chat-latest in the API) begins rolling out in Microsoft Foundry today as GPT-chat-latest. Built on GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.3-chat, the new model delivers measurable gains in fa...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Introducing langchain-azure-cosmosdb: Build Agentic Apps and RAG with One Database

Fri, 01 May 2026 16:43:29 Z

Build AI Agents and RAG Applications with the New LangChain + LangGraph Connector for Azure Cosmos DB Building AI agents and RAG applications today means stitching together half a dozen services, a vector database, a chat history store, a checkpointer for agent state, a semantic cache, a long-term memory layer. Each adds operational overhead, latency, […] The post Introducing langchain-azure-cosmosdb: Build Agentic Apps and RAG with One Database appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Cosmos DB, Categories: Services

Introducing DeepSeek V4 Flash and V4 Pro in Microsoft Foundry

Fri, 01 May 2026 00:09:00 Z

As AI adoption matures, the conversation is shifting from model capability to system design, how to orchestrate models that deliver the right balance of quality, speed, and cost. Today, we’re expa...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

From Drift to Self-Healing: Building a Multi-Repo Azure AI Infrastructure You Can Actually Trust

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:00:00 Z

How we built a self-verifying Azure platform that deploys infrastructure across multiple markets, tracks every change with three independent records, and catches drift, whether it comes from a failed...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

From ServiceNow to Self-Healing Infrastructure: A Multi-Repo Azure AI Platform

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:00:00 Z

Operating AI Agents on Azure: Observability with Azure AI Foundry

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:15:00 Z

Azure AI Foundry is Microsoft’s enterprise platform for building, deploying, and operating AI applications and intelligent agents as first‑class Azure workloads. From an infrastructure perspective, F...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Transforming Video Content into Structured SOPs Using Graph-based RAG

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:04:00 Z

Introduction In today’s digital-first environments, a large portion of enterprise knowledge lives inside video content, training sessions, onboarding walkthroughs, and recorded operational procedur...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

Azure AI Foundry vs Traditional ML Pipelines: Whats Different and Why It Matters

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:06:00 Z

The Traditional ML Pipeline: What It Was Built For Traditional ML pipelines typically look like this: Data ingestion and preparation Model training (often batch‑oriented) Model validation a...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

When RAG Isnt Enough: Moving from Retrieval to Relationship-Aware Systems in Enterprise AI:

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:04:00 Z

The Problem In an enterprise AI scenario, the goal was to map structured feature data to relevant sections within large technical documents. At a glance, this appears to be a straightforward sema...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

GPT Capability in Understanding Coordinates:How GPT-5.4 Transforms Spatial Precision

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:00:00 Z

Why I Ran This Experiment This work started not as a benchmarking exercise, but as a practical problem: I needed to automatically extract panel regions from PDF-format electrical Single...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 in Microsoft Foundry: Frontier intelligence on an enterprise ready platform

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 Z

OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 in Microsoft Foundry: Frontier intelligence on an enterprise ready platform OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 will be generally available in Microsoft Foundry, bringing OpenAI’s latest frontier model to Azure and the enterprise teams building agents for real production work.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

AI Inference on AKS enabled by Azure Arc: Generative AI using Triton and TensorRT‑LLM

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 Z

Run local edge generative AI by deploying Triton with the TensorRT-LLM backend on AKS enabled by Azure Arc to serve Qwen2.5 7B Instruct with GPU acceleration.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Kubernetes Service, Azure Arc, Categories:

AI Inference on AKS enabled by Azure Arc: Generative AI with Open‑Source LLM Server

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:01:02 Z

Run generative AI at the edge with Ollama and vLLM on AKS enabled by Azure Arc, enabling local LLM inference on GPU hardware without dependency or data egress.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Kubernetes Service, Azure Arc, Categories:

Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) for Azure AI Applications using Azure Machine Learning

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:00:00 Z

Modern AI-powered applications running on Azure increasingly require flexibility in model choice. While managed model catalogs accelerate time to value, real-world enterprise applications often need ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Machine Learning, Categories:

Select Azure AI Language Features

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:00:10 Z

On March 20, 2027, Microsoft will retire the following eight Azure AI Language features: Key Phrase ExtractionSentiment Analysis and Opinion MiningCustom Text ClassificationConversational Language Understanding (CLU)Custom Question Answering (CQA)Orchestr
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Features, Retirements

Guardrails for Generative AI: Securing Developer Workflows

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:58:00 Z

Generative AI is revolutionizing software development that accelerates delivery but introduces compliance and security risks if unchecked. Tools like GitHub Copilot empower developers to write code f...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

Automating Azure OpenAI Cost Control Using Budgets, Action Groups, and Automation Runbooks

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:28:00 Z

Introduction As organizations increasingly adopt Azure OpenAI for use cases such as generative AI, analytics, and experimentation, cost governance becomes a critical operational concern. Azure Open...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

Introducing GPT-5.4 in Microsoft Foundry

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:11:40 +0100

Introducing GPT-5.4 in Microsoft Foundry Today, we’re announcing OpenAI’s GPT‑5.4 to be generally available soon in Microsoft Foundry: a model designed to help organizations move from planning work to reliably completing it in production environments.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Observability in Generative AI: Building Trust with Systematic Evaluation in Microsoft Foundry

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 07:43:00 Z

Why observability matters for generative AI Generative AI systems operate in complex and dynamic environments. Without systematic evaluation and monitoring, these systems can produce outputs that a...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Architecting an Azure AI Hub-and-Spoke Landing Zone for Multi-Tenant Enterprises

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:19:00 Z

A large enterprise customer adopting AI at scale typically needs three non‑negotiables in its AI foundation: End‑to‑end tenant isolation across network, identity, compute, and data Secure, gove...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

Create Embeddings in Fabric Eventhouse with built-in Small Language Models (SLMs)

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 11:00:00 Z

What if generating embeddings in Eventhouse didn’t require an external endpoint, callout policies, throttling management, or per‑request costs? That’s exactly what slm_embeddings_fl() delivers: a new user-defined function (UDF) that generates text embeddings using local Small Language Models (SLMs) from within the Kusto Python sandbox, returning vectors that you can immediately use for semantic search, similarity … Continue reading “Create Embeddings in Fabric Eventhouse with built-in Small Language Models (SLMs)”
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Data Explorer, Categories: Management

Host ChatGPT apps on Azure Functions

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:03:00 Z

This blog post is for developers learning and building ChatGPT apps. It provides an overview of how these apps work, why build them, and how to host one on Azure Functions. Chat with ChatGPT apps ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Azure Functions, Categories:

From Large Semi-Structured Docs to Actionable Data: Reusable Pipelines with ADI, AI Search & OpenAI

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 07:35:00 Z

Problem Space Large semi-structured documents such as contracts, invoices, hospital tariff/rate cards multi-page reports, and compliance records often carry essential information that is difficult ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

Billing for Anomaly Detector in Real-Time Intelligence

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:00:00 Z

We have an important update for customers using Anomaly Detector in Microsoft Fabric’s Real-Time Intelligence (RTI). This feature, currently in Preview, helps you spot unusual patterns in streaming data from Eventhouse tables—without the need for complex data science tools. It’s designed to make anomaly detection simple, fast, and accessible. What does billing entail? Starting in … Continue reading “Billing for Anomaly Detector in Real-Time Intelligence”
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

🎉 Announcing General Availability of AI & RAG Connectors in Logic Apps (Standard)

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:35:00 Z

We’re excited to share that a comprehensive set of AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities is now Generally Available in Azure Logic Apps (Standard). This release brings native suppo...
Update Type: GA, Services: Logic Apps, Azure AI Services, Categories:

Foundry IQ by Azure AI Search

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Foundry IQ, powered by Azure AI Search, is a knowledge system that delivers a smarter way to ground agents in enterprise data. Agents only need to connect to a single knowledge base to access multiple sources, removing the need to manage separate APIs and
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Search, Categories:

Foundry Tools (rebrand from Azure AI Services)

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Foundry Tools (rebranded from Azure AI Services) provide a unified suite of prebuilt, production-ready AI capabilities for audio, video, images, documents, and text. Seamlessly integrated into the Microsoft Foundry platform, these tools empower developers
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories: Services

Transforming City Operations: How Villa Park and DataON Deliver Real-Time Decisions with Edge RAG

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:00 Z

In today’s connected world, customers expect instant, context-rich interactions- even in environments where cloud connectivity isn’t guaranteed. That’s where Edge Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

Ignite 2025: Preview - Intelligent Real-Time Video Insights and Agents with Azure AI Video Indexer

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:00 Z

Azure AI Video Indexer, enabled by Azure Arc, is launching the preview of live video analysis feature set enabling organizations to extract real time actionable insights directly from where their dat...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure Arc, Categories:

Azure MCP Server

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:45:17 Z

Give your agents the power of cloud and redefining how developers interact with Azure. Built on Model Context Protocol (MCP), it can create a secure, standards-based bridge between Azure services—like AKS, ACA, App Service, Cosmos DB, SQL, AI Foundry, and
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Fabric, Kubernetes Service, App Service, Cosmos DB, Container Apps, Categories: Services

Azure Computer Vision – Image Analysis will be retired on September 25, 2028

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:15:03 Z

Microsoft is announcing the planned retirement of the Azure Computer Vision – Image Analysis service. Microsoft will provide full support for all existing Azure Computer Vision – Image Analysis customers until 9/25/2028. During this support window, cust
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Retirements

Announcing latest Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK: Powering the Future of AI with OpenAI

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 12:00:18 Z

We’re thrilled to announce the stable release of Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK version 4.14.0! This release brings together months of innovation and collaboration, featuring ground-breaking capabilities that have been battle-tested in production environments. Many of these features were developed in close partnership with OpenAI, who rely heavily on Cosmos DB to store chat data […] The post Announcing latest Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK: Powering the Future of AI with OpenAI appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Cosmos DB, Categories: Features

From Timeouts to Triumph: Optimizing GPT-4o-mini for Speed, Efficiency, and Reliability

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:26:00 Z

The Challenge Large-scale generative AI deployments can stretch system boundaries — especially when thousands of concurrent requests require both high throughput and low latency. In one such...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

Azure Custom Vision will be retired on September 25, 2028

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:00:05 Z

Microsoft is announcing the planned retirement of the Azure Custom Vision service. Microsoft will provide full support for all existing Azure Custom Vision customers until 9/25/2028. During this support window, customers are encouraged to begin planning
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure AI Services, Machine Learning, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Retirements

Azure AI Health Insights and related models

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:45:35 Z

As part of a strategic review of our AI portfolio, Azure AI Health Insights service and the Clinical Trials Matcher and Radiology Insights models will be retired on December 31, 2025, and will no longer be available for use or integration. As a result, e
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories: Retirements

Accelerating Enterprise AI Adoption with Azure AI Landing Zone

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:09:00 Z

Introduction As organizations across industries race to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) into their business processes and realize tangible value, one question consistently arises — where sho...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

How to Build Frontier AI Solutions with Azure AI Landing Zone

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:09:00 Z

Introduction As organizations across industries race to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) into their business processes and realize tangible value, one question consistently arises — where...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

Announcing Parse & Chunk with Metadata in Logic Apps: Build Context-Aware RAG Agents

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 23:25:00 Z

The new Parse document with metadata and Chunk text with metadata actions in Logic Apps bring powerful improvements to how you handle documents. Unlike the previously released parse and chunk actions...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Logic Apps, Azure AI Services, Categories:

Building a Secure and Compliant Azure AI Landing Zone: Policy Framework & Best Practices

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:36:00 Z

As organizations accelerate their AI adoption on Microsoft Azure, governance, compliance, and security become critical pillars for success. Deploying AI workloads without a structured compliance fram...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

Entity Linking from Azure AI Language

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 22:00:37 Z

Microsoft is announcing the planned retirement of Entity Linking from Azure AI Language. We recommend considering a replacement solution; Named Entity Recognition from Azure AI Language also supports entity identification. Microsoft will provide full supp
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories: Services, Retirements

Using Application Gateway to secure access to the Azure OpenAI Service: Customer success story

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 21:12:00 Z

Introduction A large enterprise customer set out to build a generative AI application using Azure OpenAI. While the app would be hosted on-premises, the customer wanted to leverage the latest large...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Application Gateway, Categories:

OpenAI Agent SDK Integration with Azure Durable Functions

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 12:00:00 Z

Picture this: Your agent authored with the OpenAI Agent SDK is halfway through analyzing 10,000 customer reviews when it hits a rate limit and dies. All that progress? Gone. Your multi-agent workflow...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure Functions, Categories:

Explore Microsoft Fabric Data Agent & Azure AI Foundry for agentic solutions

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:49:00 Z

Contributors for this blogpost: Jeet J & Ritaja S Context & Objective Over the past year, Gen AI apps have expanded significantly across enterprises. The agentic AI era is here, and the Micro...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

The Future of AI Is Responsible—And Azure AI Foundry Is Leading the Way

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 18:10:00 Z

As a Microsoft Technical Trainer, I've spent years guiding learners through the evolving landscape of AI and Data. Throughout this journey, I've witnessed artificial intelligence revolutionize indust...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

Deploying GPT-OSS as Azure ML Online Endpoint

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 22:23:00 Z

As AI workloads grow in complexity and scale, deploying large language models like GPT-OSS efficiently becomes critical. In this post, we’ll walk through how to deploy GPT-OSS using Azure Machine Lea...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

o4-mini Reinforcement Fine-tuning (RFT) Now Generally Available on Azure AI Foundry

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:50:00 Z

At Build 2025, we announced Reinforcement Fine-tuning for o4-mini. Today, we are happy to promote RFT with o4-mini to General Availability on Azure AI Foundry. Customers can meaningfully fine-tune o4...
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

GPT-5 in Azure AI Foundry: Unlocking New Possibilities for Developers and Enterprises

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:00:00 Z

By Naomi Moneypenny, Head of Azure AI Foundry Direct Models and Trupti Parkar, Product Manager, Azure AI Foundry Direct It’s been only 30 days since launch of the GPT-5 models on Azure AI Fou...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

Announcing a new Azure AI Translator API (Public Preview)

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:15:00 Z

Microsoft has launched the Azure AI Translator API (Public Preview), offering flexible translation options using either neural machine translation (NMT) or generative AI models like GPT-4o. The API s...
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

Agentic Retrieval Updates in Azure AI Search

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 22:00:00 Z

We’re extending the agentic retrieval API with answer synthesis and knowledge sources so you can ground agents across multiple indexes and generate answers with citations. What are knowledge s...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Search, Categories:

Azure AI Foundry Agents: Build Intelligent, Goal-Driven AI That Acts Autonomously

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:38:00 Z

Modern organizations need intelligent systems that go beyond basic automation by perceiving, reasoning, and acting independently. Agentic AI fulfills these requirements. Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

Announcing gpt-realtime on Azure AI Foundry:

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 19:02:00 Z

We are thrilled to announce that we are releasing today the general availability of our latest advancement in speech-to-speech technology: gpt-realtime. This new model represents a significant leap f...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

Build an AI Image-Caption Generator on Azure App Service with Streamlit and GPT-4o-mini

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 10:08:00 Z

This tiny app just does one thing: upload an image → get a natural one-line caption. Under the hood: Azure AI Vision extracts high-confidence tags from the image. Azure OpenAI (GPT-4o-mini) tur...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, App Service, Categories:

From Zero to Hero: Proven Methods to Optimize RAG for Production

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 10:44:00 Z

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has rapidly become a cornerstone technology for building intelligent AI systems that combine the power of large language models (LLMs) with dynamic access to exte...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

Multi‑Agent Orchestration with Azure AI Foundry: From Idea to Production

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 14:59:00 Z

Multi‑agent systems turn complex, cross‑department processes into reliable, scalable AI workflows. Here’s a practical guide to designing, wiring, and shipping them with Azure AI Foundry—plus three re...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

What’s New in Azure AI Foundry Fine-tuning: August 2025

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:55:00 Z

The Azure AI Foundry team continues to push the boundaries of model customization with powerful updates to its fine-tuning capabilities. August brings several new features—Pause & Resume, Cross-R...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

What’s New in Azure AI Foundry Fine-tuning: August 2025

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 17:15:00 Z

The Azure AI Foundry team continues to push the boundaries of model customization with powerful updates to its fine-tuning capabilities. August brings several new features—Pause & Resume, Cross-Regio...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

GPT-5: The 7 new features enabling real world use cases

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 11:19:00 Z

GPT-5 is a family of models, built to operate at their best together, leveraging Azure’s model-router. Whilst benchmarks can be useful, it is difficult to discern “what’s new with this model?” and un...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

Deepening our Partnership with Mistral AI on Azure AI Foundry

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 17:14:00 Z

We’re excited to mark a new chapter in our collaboration with Mistral AI, a leading European AI innovator, with the launch of Mistral Document AI in Azure AI Foundry Models. This marks the first in a...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

Deploying OpenAI’s First Open-Source Model on Azure AKS with KAITO

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:55:00 Z

Special Thanks Thanks to Andrew Thomas, Kurt Niebuhr, and Sachi Desai for their invaluable support, insightful discussions, and for providing the compute resources that made testing this deployment ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Kubernetes Service, Categories:

Announcing the Text PII August preview model release in Azure AI language

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 07:34:00 Z

Azure AI Language is excited to announce a new preview model release for the PII (Personally Identifiable Information) redaction service, which includes support for more entities and languages, addre...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

Exciting News: Azure AI Blogs Have Come Together in the New Azure AI Foundry Blog

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 18:36:00 Z

We’re excited to share that we’ve entered a new chapter in how we bring you Azure AI content! To streamline your experience, several Azure AI Tech Community blogs have been consolidated into a single...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

Supercharge Data Intelligence: Build Teams App with Azure Databricks Genie & Azure AI Agent Service

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 21:10:00 Z

Introduction Are you looking to unlock the full potential of your data investments in Azure Databricks while seamlessly harnessing the capabilities of Azure AI? At Microsoft BUILD 2025, we made the...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Databricks, Categories:

Open AI's gpt-oss models on Azure Container Apps serverless GPUs

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 01:57:00 Z

Deploy OpenAI's new gpt-oss models to Azure Container Apps serverless GPUs. Run these models using both the console in Azure Container Apps and locally through the CLI.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Container Apps, Categories:

Black Forest Labs FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] and FLUX1.1 [pro] Now Available in Azure AI Foundry

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:15:00 Z

We're excited to announce Azure AI Foundry Models now hosts FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] and FLUX1.1 [pro] as direct from Azure, giving developers a first-party, enterprise-ready path to Black Forest Labs’ (...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

What’s New in Azure AI Foundry Finetuning: July 2025

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 04:11:00 Z

July Fine-Tuning Updates from Azure OpenAI Service: RFT Observability, Quick-Evals, Python Grader, and DevTier GA
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

Personal Voice upgraded to v2.1 in Azure AI Speech, more expressive than ever before

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 23:40:00 Z

At the Build conference on May 21, 2024, we announced the general available of Personal Voice, a feature designed to empower customers to build applications where users can easily create and utilize ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

AI Ready Apps: From RAG to Chat – Interacting with SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric using GraphQL and MCP

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 09:00:00 Z

In the current digital environment, applications are expected to offer more than basic functionality, they must demonstrate intelligence, adaptability, and provide seamless user experiences. To remain competitive, organizations increasingly recognize that effective data utilization is fundamental to driving innovation. Data powers real-time insights and supports advanced agentic AI systems capable of reasoning, acting, and learning. … Continue reading “AI Ready Apps: From RAG to Chat – Interacting with SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric using GraphQL and MCP”
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Fabric, SQL Database, Categories:

Creating Intelligent Video Summaries and Avatar Videos with Azure AI Services

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 07:10:00 Z

Unlock the true value of your organization’s video content! In this post, I share how we built an end-to-end AI video analytics platform using Microsoft Azure. Discover how AI can automate video anal...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories: Services

Downloading tagged images from Azure Custom Vision

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:37:00 Z

This blog post offers a comprehensive guide to efficiently downloading tagged images from Azure Custom Vision using Microsoft’s RESTful API. It walks readers through the process of authenticating wit...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

AI Agent MCP Tools: QuickStart to MCP Tools Development with Azure AI Foundry SDK

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 20:13:00 Z

As AI agents become more sophisticated, the need for seamless integration with powerful cloud-based tools grows. With the Azure AI Foundry SDK and MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools, creates a dynami...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

Building Safe, AI-Powered Data Resilience with Veeam and Azure AI Foundry

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 19:03:00 Z

Veeam Data Cloud (VDC) provides cloud-native, SaaS-based data resilience for mission-critical environments including Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Azure, and Salesforce. As enterprise data protection need...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Entra ID, Categories:

Azure AI Voice Live API: what’s new and the pricing announcement

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 04:03:00 Z

At the //Build conference in May 2025, we announced the public preview of Azure AI Voice Live API (Breakout Session 144). Today we are exciting to share some updates to this API and the latest pricin...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

Voice Conversion in Azure AI Speech

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 23:35:00 Z

We are delighted to announce the availability of the Voice Conversion (VC) feature in Azure AI Speech service, which is currently in preview. What is voice Conversion Voice Conversion (or voice c...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

Mastering Model Context Protocol (MCP): Building Multi Server MCP with Azure OpenAI

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 07:26:00 Z

Create complex Multi MCP AI Agentic applications. Deep dive into Multi Server MCP implementation, connecting both local custom and ready MCP Servers in a single client session through a custom chatbo...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

Announcing the Extension of Some Language Understanding Intelligence Service (LUIS) Functionality

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 20:00:00 Z

In 2022, we announced the deprecation of LUIS by September 30, 2025 with a recommendation to migrate to conversational language understanding (CLU). In response to feedback from our valued customers,...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

Modernizing Loan Processing with Gen AI and Azure AI Foundry Agentic Service

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:59:00 Z

Scenario Once a loan application is submitted, financial institutions must process a variety of supporting documents—including pay stubs, tax returns, credit reports, and bank statements—before a l...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

GraphRAG and PostgreSQL integration in docker with Cypher query and AI agents

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 20:08:00 Z

Why should I care? ⚡️In under 15 minutes, you’ll have a Cypher-powered, semantically rich knowledge graph you can query interactively. How can graphRAG help? GraphRAG extracts str...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Database for PostgreSQL, Categories:

Intelligent Email Automation with Azure AI Agent Service

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 21:24:00 Z

Do you ever wish you could simply tell your agent to send an email, without the hassle of typing everything — from recipient list to the subject and the body? If so, this guide on building an email-s...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

Required role assignment for private endpoint approvals in AzureML workspaces and/or AI Foundry hubs with managed network

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:00:11 Z

Starting April 30, 2025, private endpoint approvals from the Azure Machine Learning and Azure AI Foundry managed network will no longer be handled by the internal networking service. Moving forward, either the Azure AI Enterprise Network Connection Approv
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Machine Learning, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Management

Language Understanding (LUIS) retirement extended to October 31, 2025

Fri, 30 May 2025 11:15:51 Z

In September 2022, we announced that Language Understanding (LUIS) would be retired on October 1, 2025. Based on feedback from you, we are extending the retirement date to October 31, 2025, to give you more time to plan for your migration. On October 31,
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure AI Services, Machine Learning, Categories: Services, Retirements

Announcing enterprise-grade, Microsoft Entra-based document-level security in Azure AI Search

Thu, 29 May 2025 17:00:00 Z

Learn how Azure AI Search's new native support for Microsoft Entra-based POSIX-style ACLs and RBAC roles simplifies secure document access for AI applications. With enhanced ADLS Gen2 indexers and to...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Search, Categories:

Ways to simplify your data ingestion pipeline with Azure AI Search

Wed, 28 May 2025 09:00:00 Z

Azure AI Search introduces new features to simplify RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) data preparation and indexing. Key updates include the GenAI Prompt Skill (in public preview), which leverages...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Search, Categories:

Introducing Multi-Vector and Scoring Profile integration with Semantic Ranking in Azure AI Search

Wed, 28 May 2025 08:32:00 Z

We're excited to announce two powerful new enhancements in Azure AI Search: Multi-Vector Field Support and Scoring Profiles Integration with Semantic Ranking. Developed based on your feedback, these ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Search, Categories:

Import from Azure AI Foundry to Azure API Management’s AI Gateway

Fri, 23 May 2025 15:00:30 Z

Announcing the general availability of importing model endpoints from Azure AI Foundry directly into Azure API Management’s AI Gateway. This capability simplifies onboarding of large language model (LLM) APIs by enabling seamless integration through the A
Update Type: GA, Services: API Management, Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Features, Management

How Amdocs CCoE leveraged Azure AI Agent Service to build intelligent email support agent.

Fri, 23 May 2025 07:41:00 Z

In this blogpost you will learn how Amdocs CCoE team improved their SLA by providing technical support for IT and cloud infrastructure questions and queries. They used Azure AI Agent Service to build...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

Native Integration of Azure Logic Apps with Azure AI Search for RAG Workflows

Thu, 22 May 2025 20:45:20 Z

Announcing the public preview of native Azure Logic Apps integration with Azure AI Search, delivering a seamless Bring Your Own Search (BYOS) experience for document ingestion in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) scenarios. This new experience empowers
Update Type: Preview, Services: Logic Apps, Azure AI Services, Azure AI Search, Categories: Features

New fine-tuning capabilities in Azure AI Foundry

Thu, 22 May 2025 16:00:23 Z

Azure AI Foundry supports Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) with the o4-mini model in Azure OpenAI, enabling adaptive learning for context-aware applications. Alongside RFT, we introduced Global Training, allowing fine-tuning from 12+ Azure regions at reduc
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Features

Azure AI Foundry Agent Service

Thu, 22 May 2025 16:00:23 Z

Azure AI Foundry Agent Service is now generally available, empowering developers to design, deploy, and scale enterprise-grade AI agents. It supports multi-agent workflows, allowing specialized agents to handle complex tasks, accelerate decisions, and boo
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Databricks, Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Fabric, Cosmos DB, Categories: Features, Services

Managing Azure OpenAI costs with the FinOps toolkit and FOCUS: Turning tokens into unit economics

Wed, 21 May 2025 10:00:00 Z

By Robb Dilallo Introduction As organizations rapidly adopt generative AI, Azure OpenAI usage is growing—and so are the complexities of managing its costs. Unlike traditional cloud servi...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

Azure Functions integration with Azure AI Foundry Agent Service

Wed, 21 May 2025 03:30:39 Z

Azure Functions integration with AI Foundry Agent service is now generally available. Integrating Azure Functions with AI Foundry Agent service enables you to build intelligent, event-driven applications that are scalable, secure, and cost-efficient. Azur
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Azure Functions, Categories: Features, Services

Azure Container Apps serverless GPUs now support Azure AI Foundry models

Wed, 21 May 2025 03:30:39 Z

Azure Container Apps serverless GPUs now support Azure AI Foundry models in public preview. Azure AI Foundry Models have two deployment options - serverless APIs and managed compute. Azure Container Apps serverless GPU offers a balanced deployment option
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Container Apps, Categories: Features

🎙️ Announcement: Logic Apps connectors in Azure AI Search for Integrated Vectorization

Tue, 20 May 2025 16:56:00 Z

We’re excited to announce that Azure Logic Apps connectors are now supported within AI Search as data sources for ingestion into Azure AI Search vector stores. This unlocks the ability to ingest unst...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Logic Apps, Azure AI Services, Azure AI Search, Categories:

Voice-enabled AI Agents: transforming customer engagement with Azure AI Speech

Tue, 20 May 2025 16:00:00 Z

Learn about the Voice Live API that lets you voice enable your AI Agents as well as Video Translation and other new releases.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

How Anker soundcore Uses Azure AI Speech for Seamless Multilingual Communication

Tue, 20 May 2025 15:46:00 Z

“We’re excited to be part of Microsoft Build and to demonstrate what’s possible when AI meets every day tech. Built on deep technical integration and shared innovation goals, we’re able to deliver sm...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

From Extraction to Insight: Evolving Azure AI Content Understanding with Reasoning and Enrichment

Tue, 20 May 2025 01:31:00 Z

First introduced in public preview last year, Azure AI Content Understanding enables you to convert unstructured content—documents, audio, video, text, and images—into structured data. The service is...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

Foundry Local for on-device AI

Tue, 20 May 2025 00:00:01 Z

Foundry Local makes it easy to run AI models, tools and agents directly on-device, whether Windows 11 or MacOS . Foundry Local includes model inferencing, models, agents as a service, and model playground for fast and efficient local Al development. This
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Features

Azure Databricks Azure AI Foundry Connector

Mon, 19 May 2025 18:45:26 Z

You can now easily create AI agents in Azure AI Foundry with Azure Databricks data. Using the new Azure Databricks Azure AI Foundry connector, you can: Connect Azure AI Foundry agents with Azure Databricks for real-time data processing. Build and dep
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Databricks, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Features

Azure Cosmos DB integration in Azure AI Agent Service

Mon, 19 May 2025 17:15:23 Z

When designing and customizing AI apps and agents, you can now use the data stored in your Azure Cosmos DB accounts to power AI solutions built in Azure AI Foundry. Azure Cosmos DB is the first Azure database able to power Azure AI Foundry agents and mod
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Cosmos DB, Categories: Features, Services

Unlock Cost Savings with Azure AI Foundry Provisioned Throughput reservations

Mon, 19 May 2025 16:15:00 Z

In the ever-evolving world of artificial intelligence, businesses are constantly seeking ways to optimize their costs and streamline their operations while leveraging cutting-edge technologies. To he...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

Transforming On-Premises Data with RAG Capabilities on Azure Local

Mon, 19 May 2025 16:06:00 Z

Authored by Sanjana Mohan, Carmel Zolkov, and Moran Assaf, Edge RAG Product Management During Ignite 2024, we explored how Azure’s adaptive cloud approach is reshaping the AI landscape—enabling org...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories: Management

Azure Database for PostgreSQL Azure AI extension managed identity support

Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:41 Z

With managed identity support in the Azure AI extension on Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server, you no longer need to store secrets (access tokens) to your Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Services, and Azure Machine Learning services within the Postgre
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Machine Learning, Database for PostgreSQL, Categories: Features

Announcing the availability of Azure Databricks connector in Azure AI Foundry

Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:00 Z

At Microsoft, Databricks Data Intelligence Platform is available as a fully managed, native, first party Data and AI solution called Azure Databricks. This makes Azure the optimal cloud for runn...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Databricks, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

Announcing Azure AI Language new features to accelerate your agent development

Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:00 Z

In today’s fast-moving AI landscape, businesses are racing to embed conversational intelligence and automation into every customer touchpoint. However, building a reliable and scalable agent from scr...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

Introducing Built-in AgentOps Tools in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service

Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:00 Z

A New Era of Agent Intelligence We’re thrilled to announce the public preview of Tracing, Evaluation, and Monitoring in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, features designed to revolutionize how develo...
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Expand Azure AI Foundry Agent Service with More Knowledge and Action Tools

Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:00 Z

Customers often face challenges deploying AI agents that can handle complex, real-world scenarios due to limited tool access. To empower AI agents with more capabilities, Azure AI Foundry Agent Servi...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

Building a Digital Workforce with Multi-Agents in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service

Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:00 Z

We're thrilled to introduce several new multi-agent capabilities in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, including Connected Agents, Multi-Agent Workflows, MCP and A2A Support, and the Agent Catalog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

Announcing General Availability of Azure AI Foundry Agent Service

Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:00 Z

Azure AI Foundry Agent Service is now generally available, empowering developers to create enterprise-grade, multi-agent systems with enhanced reliability, security, and flexibility.
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

📢Announcement: Power your Agents in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service with Azure Logic Apps

Mon, 19 May 2025 15:56:00 Z

We’re excited to announce the Public Preview of two major integrations that bring the power of Azure Logic Apps to AI Agents in Foundry: Logic Apps as tools: You can now use Logic Apps workflows—...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Logic Apps, Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

From diagrams to dialogue: Introducing new multimodal functionality in Azure AI Search

Mon, 19 May 2025 15:45:00 Z

Discover the new multimodal capabilities in Azure AI Search, enabling integration of text and complex image data for enhanced search experiences. With features like image verbalization, multimodal em...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Search, Categories:

Introducing agentic retrieval in Azure AI Search

Mon, 19 May 2025 15:45:00 Z

Today we’re announcing agentic retrieval in Azure AI Search, a multiturn query engine that plans and runs its own retrieval strategy for improved answer relevance. Compared to traditional, single-sho...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Search, Categories:

Building an Enterprise RAG Pipeline in Azure with NVIDIA AI Blueprint for RAG and Azure NetApp Files

Mon, 19 May 2025 07:00:00 Z

Transform your enterprise-grade RAG pipeline with NVIDIA AI and Azure NetApp Files. This post highlights the challenges of scaling RAG solutions and introduces NVIDIA's AI Blueprint adapted for Azure...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure NetApp Files, Categories:

🚀 Building Intelligent, Scalable APIs with Azure APIM, Azure OpenAI, and Semantic Caching

Mon, 19 May 2025 05:49:00 Z

🔐Azure API Management (APIM): The Gateway to Modern APIs Azure API Management provides a robust platform to expose, manage, and secure APIs. It acts as a facade between your backend services and c...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, Azure AI Services, Categories: Management

Announcing the availability of Azure Databricks connector in Azure AI Foundry

Mon, 19 May 2025 03:28:00 Z

At Microsoft, Databricks Data Intelligence Platform is available as a fully managed, native, first party Data and AI solution called Azure Databricks. This makes Azure the optimal cloud for ru...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Databricks, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

Introducing Azure AI Content Understanding for Beginners

Tue, 13 May 2025 16:18:00 Z

Enterprises today face several challenges in processing and extracting insights from multimodal data, like managing diverse data formats, ensuring data quality, and streamlining workflows efficiently...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

🧾 Automate Invoice data extraction with Logic Apps and Document Intelligence

Mon, 12 May 2025 23:28:00 Z

📘 Scenario: Modernizing invoice processing with AI In many organizations, invoices still arrive as scanned documents, email attachments, or paper-based handoffs. Extracting data from these formats...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Logic Apps, Azure AI Services, Categories:

Accelerate AI on Oracle Databases with Open Mirroring, Fabric Data Agent, and Azure AI Foundry

Mon, 12 May 2025 11:00:00 Z

Additional contributors: Venkat Ramakrishnan, Amir Jafari, Wilson Lee, Maraki Ketema As organizations accelerate their hybrid cloud adoption strategies, Oracle Database@Azure has emerged as a critical platform for running Oracle database workloads using Exadata, Autonomous, Exadata Exascale and Base databases for the enterprise. However, deriving real-time, AI-powered insights in hybrid settings has long been challenging due … Continue reading “Accelerate AI on Oracle Databases with Open Mirroring, Fabric Data Agent, and Azure AI Foundry”
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

Dynamic Tool Discovery: Azure AI Agent Service + MCP Server Integration

Sun, 11 May 2025 17:32:00 Z

At the time of this writing, Azure AI Agent Service does not offer turnkey integration with Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers. Discussed here is a solution that helps to leverage MCP's powerful ca...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

From Complexity to Simplicity: The ASC and Azure AI Partnership

Fri, 09 May 2025 19:48:00 Z

ASC Technologies, a leader in compliance recording and AI-driven data analytics, provides cutting-edge software solutions for capturing and analyzing communication channels. Their innovative technolo...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

Seamlessly Integrating Azure Document Intelligence with Azure API Management (APIM)

Fri, 09 May 2025 12:20:00 Z

In today’s data-driven world, organizations are increasingly turning to AI for document understanding. Whether it's extracting invoices, contracts, ID cards, or complex forms, Azure Document Intellig...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, Azure AI Services, Categories: Management

Automating Azure AI Foundry Deployment with IaC: Leveraging Bicep and GitHub Workflows

Fri, 09 May 2025 05:32:00 Z

Azure AI Foundry offers a unified platform that streamlines enterprise AI operations, model development, and application deployment. It brings together robust infrastructure and intuitive tools, empo...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

Unlocking the Power of Model Distillation through Azure AI Foundry

Wed, 07 May 2025 21:25:00 Z

AI distillation is a powerful technique in machine learning that involves transferring knowledge from a large, complex model (often called the "teacher") to a smaller, more efficient "student" model....
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Machine Learning, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

Navigating AI Solutions: Microsoft Copilot Studio vs. Azure AI Foundry

Wed, 07 May 2025 19:07:00 Z

Are you looking to build custom Copilots but unsure about the differences between Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry? As a Microsoft Technical Trainer with over a decade of experience, I've spent th...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

o-Series & gpt-4.1 Models Now Available in Azure AI Agent Service

Wed, 07 May 2025 16:58:00 Z

New Models Available! We’re excited to announce the preview availability of the following models for use in the Azure AI Agent Service, starting 5/7: o1 o3-mini gpt-4.1 ...
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Azure OpenAI o-series & GPT-4.1 Models Now Available in Azure AI Agent Service

Wed, 07 May 2025 16:58:00 Z

New Models Available! We’re excited to announce the preview availability of the following Azure OpenAI Service models for use in the Azure AI Agent Service, starting 5/7: o1 o3-mini ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

A Microsoft Fabric Template for Azure AI Content Understanding is Now Available

Thu, 01 May 2025 22:39:00 Z

We are excited to share that we have released a new Microsoft Fabric pipeline template that helps you easily send the results from Azure AI Content Understanding into a Fabric Lakehouse! This t...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Azure Logic Apps now available as Agent tool in Azure AI Foundry

Thu, 01 May 2025 20:30:19 Z

We’re excited to announce that Azure Logic Apps connectors and templates are now available as tools within the AI Agent Service in Foundry. This integration brings the power of enterprise-grade integration to AI agents, enabling them to interact with hund
Update Type: Preview, Services: Logic Apps, Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Features

Introducing new OpenAI Plugins for Eventhouse (Preview)

Thu, 01 May 2025 09:00:00 Z

We are excited to announce the release of two powerful AI plugins for Eventhouse: AI Embed Text Plugin and AI Chat Completion Prompt Plugin. These plugins are designed to enhance your data analysis capabilities and augment your workflows with OpenAI models, providing more granular control to power users who seek precision over model output or wish to fine-tune … Continue reading “Introducing new OpenAI Plugins for Eventhouse (Preview)”
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

AI Gateway Enhancements: LLM policies, Real-Time API support, Content Safety, and more

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:08:00 Z

As AI becomes more deeply integrated into applications, managing and governing Large Language Models (LLMs) is more important than ever. Today, we’re excited to announce several major updates to AI G...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

Behind the Azure AI Foundry: Essential Azure Infrastructure & Cost Insights

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 08:47:00 Z

What is Azure AI Foundry? Azure AI Studio is now renamed to Azure AI Foundry. Azure AI Foundry is a unified AI development platform where teams can efficiently manage AI projects, deploy and test g...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories:

Advancing Fine-Tuning in Azure AI Foundry: April 2025 Updates

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 20:44:00 Z

Azure AI Foundry's April 2025 updates introduce new capabilities to streamline, scale, and enhance fine-tuning workflows for developers and ML practitioners. Key updates include fine-tuning support f...
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Check Azure AI Service Models and Features by Region in Excel Format

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 03:35:00 Z

Introduction While Microsoft's documentation provides information on the OpenAI models available in Azure, it can be challenging to determine which features are included in which model versions and...
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Using Azure OpenAI's Computer Using Agent for procure to Pay Automation

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 11:03:00 Z

Solution Architecture The solution leverages a comprehensive stack of Azure technologies: **Azure OpenAI Service**: Powers core AI capabilities Responses API: Orchestrates the workf...
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Using the CUA model in Azure OpenAI for procure to Pay Automation

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 11:03:00 Z

Maximize efficiency by managing and exchanging your Azure OpenAI Service provisioned reservations

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 10:00:00 Z

When it comes to AI, businesses confront unprecedented challenges in efficiently managing computational resources. That’s why Azure OpenAI Service is a critical platform for organizations seeking to ...
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SLM Model Weight Merging for Federated Multi-tenant Requirements

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 05:34:00 Z

Model merging is a technique for combining the model parameters of multiple models, specifically finetuned variants of a common base model, into a single unified model. In the context of Small Langua...
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Tracing your Semantic Kernel Agents with Azure AI Foundry

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:53:00 Z

Many of us have encountered questions about monitoring Semantic Kernel Agents. As developers, we want to understand several aspects: the prompts sent by the Kernel to the AI Service, the behind-the-s...
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Easy service upgrade and change service tier in Azure AI Search

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:15:29 Z

Azure AI Search has two new self-serve options that make it easy to change or upgrade your service, directly from Azure portal or the management API. Changing your service tier is now as easy as adding partitions or replicas; no rebuild required. Self-se
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Arizona Department of Transportation Innovates with Azure AI Vision

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 21:22:00 Z

The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) is committed to providing safe and efficient transportation services to the residents of Arizona. With a focus on innovation and customer service, ADOT...
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Azure AI Search: Cut Vector Costs Up To 92.5% with New Compression Techniques

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:41:00 Z

TLDR: Key learnings from our compression technique evaluation Cost savings: Up to 92.5% reduction in monthly costs Storage efficiency: Vector index size reduced by up to 99% Speed improvement...
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Building an Interactive Feedback Review Agent with Azure AI Search and Haystack

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 22:38:00 Z

We’re excited to announce the integration of Haystack with Azure AI Search! To demonstrate its capabilities, we’ll walk you through building an interactive review agent to efficiently retrieve and an...
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Bonus RAG Time Journey: Agentic RAG

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:00:00 Z

This is a bonus post for RAG Time, a 6-part educational series on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). In this series, we explored topics such as indexing and retrieval techniques for RAG, data inge...
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Azure OpenAI Service now authorized for all U.S. Government data classification levels

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:00:20 Z

In the coming years, artificial intelligence will continue to be foundational to technical innovations for national security missions. Already, U.S. defense and intelligence organizations are using AI to enhance productivity, support decision making, and improve mission outcomes. Microsoft Azure is a backbone for this type of AI-driven work, supporting U.S. government missions with high resiliency, […] The post Azure OpenAI Service now authorized for all U.S. Government data classification levels appeared first on Azure Government.
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General-Purpose vs Reasoning Models in Azure OpenAI

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:23:00 Z

Explore the key differences between general-purpose and reasoning large language models (LLMs) using real-world examples from Azure OpenAI. Learn how to compare models like GPT-4o, o1, and their mini...
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New enhanced navigation in Azure AI Search

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 18:51:00 Z

Faceted navigation is a key component of search experiences, helping users intuitively drill down through large sets of search results by refining their queries quickly and efficiently. We are ann...
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New scale options in Azure AI Search: change your pricing tier and service upgrade

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 20:13:00 Z

Discover two powerful new preview features in Azure AI Search: change your service’s pricing tier and upgrade existing services to unlock higher storage limits with no downtime or reindexing.
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Llama 4 is now available in Azure Databricks

Sun, 06 Apr 2025 00:31:00 Z

We are excited to announce the availability of Meta's Llama 4 in Azure Databricks. As you know, enterprises all over the world already use Llama models in Azure Databricks to power AI enterpr...
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RAG Time Journey 5: Enterprise-ready RAG

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 16:45:00 Z

Introduction Congratulations on making it this far and welcome to RAG Time Journey 5! This is the next step in our multi-format educational series on all things Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)...
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Announcing the General Availability of Azure AI Video Indexer enabled by Azure Arc

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:03:00 Z

The general availability of Azure AI Video Indexer as an extension enabled by Azure Arc builds upon Azure's adaptive cloud approach, that unifies hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge infrastructure with a c...
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Best Practices for Bootstrapping AI Agents with Azure OpenAI and Synthetic Data

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:05:00 Z

Introduction When building AI agents—especially for internal enterprise use cases—one of the biggest challenges is data access. Real organizational data may be: Disorganized or poorly labeled ...
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Best Practices for Kickstarting AI Agents with Azure OpenAI and Synthetic Data

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:05:00 Z

Expand Azure AI Agent with New Knowledge Tools: Microsoft Fabric and Tripadvisor

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:00:00 Z

To help AI Agents make well-informed decisions with confidence, knowledge serves as the foundation for generating accurate and grounded responses. By integrating comprehensive and precise data, Azure...
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Best Practices for Using Generative AI in Automated Response Generation for Complex Decision Making

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:53:00 Z

Real-world AI Solutions: Lessons from the Field Overview Generative AI offers significant potential to streamline processes in domains with complex regulatory or clinical documentation. For examp...
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AI Ready Apps: build RAG Data pipeline from Azure Blob Storage to SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric within minutes

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 09:55:00 Z

Microsoft Fabric is a unified, secure, and user-friendly data platform equipped with features necessary for developing enterprise-grade applications with minimal or no coding required. Last year, the platform was enhanced by introducing SQL Database in Fabric, facilitating AI application development within Microsoft Fabric. In a previous blog post, we discussed how to build a chatbot … Continue reading “AI Ready Apps: build RAG Data pipeline from Azure Blob Storage to SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric within minutes”
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Empowering agentic AI by integrating Fabric with Azure AI Foundry

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 07:45:00 Z

Additional author: Joanne Wong Data plays a critical role in agentic AI, enabling AI agents to operate independently, make informed decisions, and take meaningful actions. And that’s why we are expanding capabilities and deepening integrations between our data and AI platforms. Starting today, organizations can use Azure AI Foundry to connect customized, conversational agents, created … Continue reading “Empowering agentic AI by integrating Fabric with Azure AI Foundry”
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March 2025: Azure AI Speech’s HD voices are generally available and more

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 06:10:00 Z

Authors: Yufei Liu, Lihui Wang, Yao Qian, Yang Zheng, Jiajun Zhang, Bing Liu, Yang Cui, Peter Pan, Yan Deng, Songrui Wu, Gang Wang, Xi Wang, Shaofei Zhang, Sheng Zhao We are pleased to announce...
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RAG Time Journey 4: Advanced Multimodal Indexing

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 16:00:00 Z

Introduction Welcome to RAG Time Journey 4, the next step in our deep dive into Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). If you’ve been following along, you might remember that in Journey 2 , we explo...
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New enhanced navigation in Azure AI Search

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:50:00 Z

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Best Practices for Requesting Quota Increase for Azure OpenAI Models

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 13:33:00 Z

Introduction This document outlines a set of best practices to guide users in submitting quota increase requests for Azure OpenAI models. Following these recommendations will help streamline the pr...
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Best Practices for Structured Extraction from Documents Using Azure OpenAI

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:36:00 Z

This post outlines best practices for extracting structured data from unstructured documents using Azure OpenAI and Pydantic. It highlights a chunk-based processing approach, iterative form updates, ...
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Announcing the Extension of Some QnA Maker Functionality

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:26:00 Z

In 2022, we announced the deprecation of QnA Maker by March 31, 2025 with a recommendation to migrate to Custom Question Answering (CQA). In response to feedback from our valued customers, we have de...
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Agentic P2P Automation: Harnessing the Power of OpenAI's Responses API

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 18:24:00 Z

The Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process is traditionally error-prone and labor-intensive, requiring someone to manually open each purchase invoice, look up contract details in a separate system, and painsta...
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Building a multimodal, multi-agent system using Azure AI Agent Service and OpenAI Agent SDK

Sun, 23 Mar 2025 11:02:00 Z

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), the development of systems that can autonomously interact, learn, and make decisions has become a focal point. A pivotal aspect of t...
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Deploy Your First Azure AI Agent Service on Azure App Service

Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:06:00 Z

1. Introduction Azure AI Agent Service is a fully managed service designed to empower developers to securely build, deploy, and scale high-quality, extensible AI agents without needing to manage th...
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Best Practices for Leveraging Azure OpenAI in Code Conversion Scenarios

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:21:00 Z

Code Conversion Use Case Problem Statement In the world of programming, the ability to convert code from one language to another is vital for modernizing legacy systems and adapting to evolving t...
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Best Practices for Leveraging Azure OpenAI in Constrained Optimization Scenarios

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:42:00 Z

In this blog, we explore best practices for leveraging AI in constrained optimization and structured decision-making, using an AI-powered course scheduling system as a case study. Learn how multi-age...
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Managing Traffic Jams with Azure OpenAI PTU Spillover

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 22:38:00 Z

In my previous blog, (Azure OpenAI offering models - Explain it Like I'm 5 | Microsoft Community Hub), I drew a comparison of our Azure OpenAI service to a highway. In the standard offering, all user...
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Advanced RAG Solution Accelerator

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:02:00 Z

Overview What is RAG and Why Advanced RAG? Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a natural language processing technique that combines the strengths of retrieval-based and generation-based mode...
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Monitoring OpenAI Agents SDK with Application Insights

Mon, 17 Mar 2025 09:36:00 Z

As AI agents become more prevalent in applications, monitoring their behavior and performance becomes crucial. In this blog post, we'll explore how to monitor the OpenAI Agents SDK using Azure Applic...
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Monitor OpenAI Agents SDK with Application Insights

Mon, 17 Mar 2025 09:36:00 Z

Model Context Protocol (MCP): Integrating Azure OpenAI for Enhanced Tool Integration and Prompting

Sun, 16 Mar 2025 12:17:00 Z

Model Context Protocol serves as a critical communication bridge between AI models and external systems, enabling AI assistants to interact directly with various services through a standardized inter...
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Use Azure OpenAI and APIM with the OpenAI Agents SDK

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 19:10:00 Z

The OpenAI Agents SDK provides a powerful framework for building intelligent AI assistants with specialised capabilities. In this blog post, I'll demonstrate how to integrate Azure OpenAI Service and...
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